Jared was angry, no Jared was pissed. He put Hailie in the car and mumbled under his breath as he buckled her up and walked to the other side of his blue and white mustang and got in. He slammed his fist into the steering wheel and Hailie's eyes filled with tears. She saw Jared upset and angry before but never this angry. Jared looked into his rearview and sighed.
"Angel, it ain't you I'm mad with." He said gently as he started up his car. "I just can't believe that asshole.." He stopped talking and turned around with a grin. "How about I take you to the park?"
Hailie perked up and nodded eagerly. "Yeah!"
"Okay, but don't unbuckle your seatbelt young lady." He said and turned around, while driving Hailie was quiet for most of the ride and Jared thought she fell asleep but when he turned around she was wide awake and playing with a cd she found in the back. "Whatcha got there angel?"
"Is a cd." Hailie said and held it up for him to see it. It was all scratched to hell and her fingerprints lined it.
He plucked it out of her hands and smiled, handing her a teddy bear instead. "What do you get into everything?"
She was about to reply when Jared's phone went off. He picked it up and read the caller I.D. before he answered. His finger hovered over the accept button and all he heard was yelling. "What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you not have a mind Jared? What in the hell gave you the right to go.."
"DEAN!" Jared yelled into the phone, he was already pissed and Dean was pushing it. "What do you want? I don't want to be screamed at."
"My daughter gets suspended and you don't have the decency to call me up and tell me, or send a friggen text? What did you lose your ability to technology?" Dean asked him clearly upset.
"Listen Dean, I didn't think..."
Dean cut him off. "Yeah you didn't think, thats the problem Jared you never think! That's what screws you up on hunts, thats what causes us to fight, and thats what gets my daughter all worked up! You don't think."
Jared looked at Hailie and watched as her lip quivered. "Dean, Hailie can hear you and your making her upset."
Dean stopped talking and thought for a second. Jared held his breath and waited for the reply. "You and I will talk privately when I get home." He growled and hung up.
Jared put his phone down and twisted around to see Hailie. "Angel, its okay." He rubbed a soothing hand through her hair. "Don't cry."
"Okay." She whispered looking down at the floor and holding her arms around her.
"How about I take you for ice cream?" Jared asked with a grin.
Hailie's head snapped up and she nodded eagerly. "Yes please."
"You got it angel." He smiled and drove to the ice cream shack and he got her the biggest ice cream cone they had. Hailie was sitting in the booth across from him, lapping at her chocolate ice cream. Her bangs were falling into her ice cream and Jared quickly pulled out a bobby pin and fixed her hair up. Her bright eyes lingered on him for a minute before she went back to licking her ice cream. When Hailie had finished the ice cream Jared couldn't help but laugh, she was covered in it. Her hands were all sticky and her face was a chocolate beard. He took her to the bathroom and cleaned her up. On the way home, Jared played Hailie's music while he watched the road.
"Sing along with me Jared." Hailie said sweetly.
"I don't know this one." Jared said looking at her in the rearview.
"Yeah-huh." She crossed her arms. "Everyone knows baa-baa black sheep."
"Not me, angel." Jared chuckled.
"Yeah-huh!" She exclaimed.
"Hailie.." He trailed off staring at her.
"Yes, you do." Hailie's lip quivered and she wiped her eyes.
"Oh Jesus." He rolled his eyes. "Fine Hailie I'll sing it with you."
"Okay!" She said happily. "Baa-baa black sheep have you any wool?"
"Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full." Jared muttered loud enough for her to hear.
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